New Moon by Stephenie Meyer is the second book to the twilight saga, the story follows the trail of events started during twilight. While I felt in-love with the story of twilight, my feeling on New Moon seemed different. You can see my blog about the first book here.
During Bella's eighteenth birthday celebration at the Cullen's she accidentally injured herself. The Cullen's being a family of vampires have been restraining themselves from human blood but the scent of Bella blood suddenly drives one of Edward's brother Jasper to attack Bella. Edward manages to save her but the Cullen family decides to leave their house and move to a different location for Bella's sake.
Bella obviously didn't like the idea but she can't do anything about it since they left. The worst part was she was longing for her Edward, she loves Edward very much and became so involved with their vampire family that missing him drove her to be lonely.
This loneliness was filled in by Jacob, a large part of the book was about the bonding between Jacob and Bella and I just don't like the idea but hey' I guess everybody loves a love-triangle. Bella soon found out that Jacob and his tribe are actually a bunch of ware wolves, and just like modern vampire stories ware wolves and vampires always try to kill each other.
Alice Edwards brother soon came to visit to convince Edward to stop his suicide attempt in Italy after getting information that Bella might be dead due to an accident. While at Italy Bella manages to stop Edward but their actions brought them to confront the Volturi a powerful vampire family. The Volturi felt a suddent interest with Bella as she knows too much and for her not to be killed she has to be transformed into a vampire and that she is the only person whose mind can't be read by Edward and Aro one of the members of the Volturi.
I think the story of twilight is better than New Moon but still it excites me because new characters are comming up and how the story is made close to reality, while still bringing a new color to being a vampire.
Off to book 3 and 4 of the twilight saga.
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
A lot of friends told me about a new book about vampires, and since I'm a fan of Anne Rice and Lestat, I scoured the book stores to look for this particular book. I was amazed that I actually had a hard time looking for the book, that alone made me conclude that this book is really something, but eventually I found a copy and so I started.
The story is about a teenage girl named Isabella "bella" Swan and her love affair with Edward Cullen. Teenage love stories are pretty usual but this one is very much different since Eward is actually a vampire, Bella doesn't know this fact at first but even when she knew, she couldn't deny what she felt for the hundred year old teenage looking vampire.
Bella seemed a pretty ordinary girl with extraordinary skill in being at the wrong place moved from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington, to live with her Father Charlie, since her mother Renee can be with her new husband. At forks she eventually adapted herself at school and quickly made friends with her classmates.
At first Edward being a classmate was being rude and shows a bit of agression with her, but as time passes, this turned to friendship and Edward even saved Bella from a freak accident that made Bella think about who Edward really was. After a bit of flirting with a friend, she concludes that Edward and his family are a bunch of vampires.
Despite this fact they both fell in-love with each other since to Bella's satisfaction Edward and his family are actually resisting to drink human blood, specially Edward who finds Bella's blood to be very attractive. Everything seemed to be doing well until they encounter another group of vampire with one particularly interested with Bella.
The family of vampires hid Bella and tried to stop the vampire thats interested with bella which they eventually did using their vampire skills.
For me Stephenie Meyer is like a lighter side of Anne Rice when it comes with vampire stories. I'm really not a fan of love stories but I liked this one since the story is new and puts a new description to vampires. Stephenie's vampires are not your usual vampire's and for me her vampires are much cooler that your usual Bram Stoker Dracula's.
It seems I'm on the hunt for Book 2, 3 and 4 of her series.
parody of a lover: a hopless romantic
This was posted on Nov 26, '04 12:36 PM, i just found this from my multiply account
Something to read about...just remember this was like four years ago...
almost every time i happen to sit at the lobby, my eyes automatically entangle with romantic scenes: couples doing HHWW (holdin' hands while walking), and those stuffs you see in commercials...i cant deny im smiling from within. a bit of that envious feeling pounds in my heart . And as saccharine scenes begin to sink in, i tell myself, "dont just sit there, have your own!". sounds easy though, but its not! sure enough-the delights of having someone beside you doing the HHWW stuff, whispering to her ears,a s she responds with a slight pinch on your side!
but at the back of my mind i am always visited by the basic reality of a relationship. can i give up my tsinovela habits? the pleasures of sleep just for her...?can i afford to look like F4 just to keep things from falling?in short am i going to be a different person? stuff like these matter to me...somehow 60% of my conviction look at it as unbearable, but entertaining.
many know how to start a relationship but do not know how to keep it...maybe its too ordinary to many or they might just be too slow to know. the matter is quite relative and subjective. the more you think of it, the more you misunderstand it. (its like just do it, man!!!!)
i had a friend who usually complains that love is unfair, and does not want to fall in love again. it is too painful and unfair. but just at the sight of his beloved, she could hardly say a word. she goes GAGA over him..there is no denying that loving is not a simple thing, its too painful and too deceiving to ignore yet we keep on loving! why?..
i am beginning to doubt whether love alone is the basis of a successful relationship, because if it is...how many relationships were torn apart? priorities disintegrated, dreams shattered and lives impaired?when in fact love is all that matters?
what about money, they say you cant buy love but without it, you can hardly have any relationship. Tsk...Damn, money!!!
can we blame love? can we accuse cupid of not doing his job well? we are appalled and get pissed when others intrude into our private life; most often when the heart is at stake only to laugh at the end-"they are correct".pity or simply infatuation, we really do not understand how love is maintained sustained and practiced...pushing ourselves to commit to a relationship irrepressibly and irresponsibly.
i am not a love doctor; i probably am in need of one. neither attend love, courtship nor marriage seminars. i am just someone who does not want to miss what this good life has to offer, not just of hasty decisions, i might regret later in my life...how if things wont fall into place? the ecstasy i dream turns into a nightmare-it is not my time yet.
i have nothing against those who enjoy and honor the magic spell of love's promises; actually i am fascinated with them..it is just that i have not finished patching up things for myself and yet quite disorganized and needs a lot of repair. i never want to jeopardize the banes of love and the essence of a relationship-or what relationship is all about! i am quite sure that love is not hard to find, but not served.
what puzzles me is where should i go from here?
to whom will i share special moments with?
spending the glories of my coming days,
waiting for my sunset.
i do not want to miss her-maybe not here,
not now.
and that was four years ago...remember...
